Jonathan Kemp
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Alone : Thomas Moore reviewed by Jonathan Kemp
“The door closes. He’s gone. I’m alone.” Moore’s narrator feels he’s hard-wired for abandonment, allergic to reciprocated love, only happy when he’s being rejected. Loneliness is the one constant in his life, the one companion that never leaves. “Loneliness can be the greatest gift”, he says. The fragmented nature of the text mirrors the…
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The Coast is Queer : Queer literary Festival Feb 2021
At one point during the session Queers in the Library, there was a brief discussion of the concept of space itself, that the library can be as much a virtual zone as a material one, a space both physical and theoretical. It seemed to me to sum up the whole of the festival…
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A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance : review by Jonathan Kemp
“Pakistani culture visits the crimes of the child on his parents. I would shame them more than myself. It would be them, not me, at the forefront of public scorn and ridicule”, writes Mohsin Zaidi in this powerful memoir, and to understand this is to understand the entire nature and timbre of his dilemma, and…
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Jonathan Kemp (and his moustache) raves about HOMOSTASH DIARIES #01
What did you do during lockdown? Learn Spanish or how to bake banana bread? The hotties who run the hot East London clubnight Homostash decided to take advantage of the restrictions produce a gorgeous full colour Zine featuring all manner of mustachioed lovelies. something they’d been thinking of for a long time but had…
